The Community of Verdensa is a huge, genial nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 988 million Verdensans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 65.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Verdensan economy, worth 33.7 trillion Nugs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is 34,134 Nugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verdensa's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdensa is ranked 39,734^th in the world and 313^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.